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Geologic Unit: Eoline

Usage:

Eoline Member of Coker Formation (AL*)


Geologic age:

early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures in cuts along AL Highway 6, about 30 mi southeast of Tuscaloosa and 1.5 mi east of community of Eoline, Bibb Co., central AL (Conant and Monroe, 1945).


AAPG geologic province:

Mid-Gulf Coast basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).